Over at ASCIImeo (a project by Peter Nitsch), you can now search for and view any Vimeo video in ASCII text. The conversion is apparently done in real-time which is sorta neat. There’s really no reason for it I guess, except that it’s sometimes fun to view at things in the way they were not intended to look.
It’s Thursday night and you’re home alone with nothing to do. So you come across this URL called twoyoutubevideosandamotherfuckingcrossfader.com. You click it, and then suddenly it’s PARTY TIME. OH YEAH.
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m teaching myself to edit video and I’ve learned a lot in the past few weeks. It’s incredible what the internet can do to substitute an education that requires tuition. I feel like I’m able to learn at my own pace (usually faster than in a classroom setting) and be able to get instant answers to just about any problem I run into simply by doing a search. If this were a classroom, I’d be waiting forever unless I was one-on-one with my teacher.
Anyway, a lot of what I’m learning is being put to practice in these short clips that I’ve been uploading and featuring here on Doobybrain.com. I know they don’t usually show anything substantial, so feel free to ignore these. I’m simply posting this so I can look back at it in the future and laugh at how I thought these were really spectacular.
UPDATE: Oh, this was shot at 60fps on a Canon 7D and up-sampled to be 720p. Still looks good though doesn’t it?
CNN took their cameras behind the scenes at Wong Fu Productions to see what 3 guys are doing to better represent Asians in media and popular culture. Watch it!
Not satisfied with looking at still pictures? Then check out this [very long] video that Simon put together of all of the movies he shot while we were both at the Red Hook grain factory/terminal this past weekend.